Tag: James Avati
Love Trap
Love Knows No Barriers (Original Title: God Is For White Folks)
Two Lovers Neither Black Nor White
Louisville Saturday
Tea and Sympathy
The Famous Story Of A Student Who Needed Love — And The Married Woman Who Dared To Give It To Him
The Fascinator
In The Grip of Irresistible Temptation!
via The Plate Collection
The Happy Thieves (Original Title: The Oldest Confession)
The wild witty novel about the adventures of a master thief.
For this cover the concept was to show two art thieves, a man and a woman, in the process of stealing a painting. The painting would be shown in a forced perspective which allowed one side of the painting to be lined up exactly to the side of the cover. To achieve this effect, Avati first made a prop painting (Diego Velasquez ‘The toilet of Venus, ca 1650), stood it on the floor and photographed it in the proper perspective. Jane and a friend, Bill Convery, posed as the criminal couple. For years afterward, the prop painting remained hanging on Jim’s studio wall.
— The Paperback Art of James Avati
Serenade
The Bigamous Duchess
Lords And Princes Spent Their Fortunes For One Night With Her!
Tobacco Road (1951)
Tobacco Road
Sanctuary and Requiem For A Nun
Conjugal Love
The Road Back
The Other Room
A Southern White Girl Gets The Shock Of Her Life
From the back:
The iron grillwork of the gate stood between them…..and so did years of tradition and social custom. It was a barrier, built by hate and fear, between one color and another. He might have crossed that line, and lived on her side – but he was too proud to pass for white
James Avati’s first paperback cover illustration